Breakout session given by Entelechy Arts & the Albany was part of the Cultural Commissioning National Seminar in London on the 6th June 2014. Find out more about Cultural Commissioning Programme. http://www.ncvo.org.uk/practical-support/public-services/cultural-commissioning-programme
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A weekly arts programme responsive to beneficiary needs through the processes of co-design and co-production
Meet Me at the Albany
Visibility & Mainstream Engagement
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Arts Centre Café Social space Life of the building Visibility and mainstream engagement for diversity of older people Family point
Agency & Voice
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The losses that come with age restrict our agency. The practice of art is one form of resistance to that change because it confers agency. Through creation, we can act in the world. And there is no age limit on art practice. Sense of purpose You can do something and still be a part of the world Recognition
Promoting independence & wellbeing
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From a commissioners point of view Key intervention about re-enablement Supporting people to live independently for longer Impact of loneliness and wellbeing –impact on future care costs
Embedded and sustained practice:“Staying connected with an arts space in your community ”
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Not a project. All day. 50 weeks a year. Flexibility built into the programme
Older participants, volunteers and artists sharing power to plan and deliver work together
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Artists are very good at is living with uncertainty and vulnerability. Exposing themselves. Taking risks. Real risks. Because if you are involved in a creative process you do not know where that play or that song or that painting will actually be any good at the end of it
Ingredients
The artist embedded within a civic space that is safe and open and owned by the community
A broad range of referral routes-
self-
referral, adult social care referral, family referral, GP referral
Consistent team of ‘holding’
artists
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Part of the co-production –importance of the relational model
A dynamic volunteer programme
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The three weeks I wasn’t at Meet Me over Christmas were the longest weeks of my life’